Yaniv Balmas
Head of Cyber Research, Check Point Software Technologies
Yaniv Balmas is a software engineer and a seasoned professional in the security field. He wrote his very first piece of code in BASIC on the new Commodore-64 he got for his eighth birthday. As a teenager, he spent his time looking for ways to hack computer games and break BBS software. This soon led to diving into more serious programming, and ultimately, the security field where he has been ever since. Balmas is currently leading the security research group at Check Point Software Technologies where he deals mainly with analyzing malware and vulnerability research.